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• Enterprise Reporter 3.5.1 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Enterprise Reporter 3.5.1 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Table of Contents  

Product Overview

Key Features of Enterprise Reporter Components of Enterprise Reporter

The Configuration Manager

An Overview of the Configuration Manager Clusters Shared Data Locations Nodes Discoveries Role of the Server

The Report Manager The Database Wizard and Database Content Wizard The Encryption Key Manager SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

Summarizing the Workflow

Configuring the Configuration Manager

Starting the Configuration Manager Finding answers and getting help Overview of Enterprise Reporter Communications and Credentials Required

Node Credential and Alternate Credential Details for On-Premises Discoveries Detailed permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries Permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries on NAS devices Permissions for Enterprise Reporter tenant applications Logged-In User Credentials Server Service Credentials

Changing the credentials used by the Enterprise Reporter Server

Using the Credential Manager

Changing Passwords Using the Credential Manager Changing Account Names Using the Credential Manager

Setting Up Your First Collection Computers (Nodes)

Configuring Clusters and Nodes for Effective Data Collection Things to Consider Before Creating a Cluster Creating Your First Cluster and Node

Modifying Your Deployment

Managing Clusters

When Do You Add a Cluster? Modifying a Cluster Deleting a Cluster Disabling a Cluster What To Do if a Cluster is Disabled Enabling a Cluster

Managing Nodes

Modifying Node Credentials Modifying the Location of Node Temporary Files Changing a Node to a Different Cluster Removing a Node Why Disable a Node? Stopping a Node Enabling a Node Starting a Node

What does the status of a node or cluster indicate?

Configuring Global Settings

Configuring Change History Configure Logging Credential Manager Database Settings Configuring Email Notifications Registering an Application for Exchange Online Email Delivery

Registering and configuring an application through Azure Active Directory

Managing the Collection of Additional Attributes Configuring IT Security Search Configuring a NAS Host Device Configuring Server Error Notification Managing Tenant Applications Managing the Logon Configuration

Customizing the Configuration Manager View

Understanding Discoveries

Defining the Data Collection (Discoveries) Multi-Factor Authentication Discovery Credential Limitations Best Practices for Creating Discoveries Improving the Performance of Your Discoveries

Adding a Node Improving the Performance of a Node

Discovery Permission Requirements

Detailed permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries Permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries on NAS devices Permissions for Enterprise Reporter tenant applications CM Understanding Discoveries.04.12.html

Creating Discoveries

Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name)

Configuring Tenant Applications for Cloud Discoveries

Step 2. Choose what to include in your discovery (Scopes)

Scopes: An Overview How Scopes Affect Tombstoning Using the Browser to Include and Exclude Scopes Including Objects in Your Scope Importing Computers to Your Scopes Refining Your Scope with Exclusions Filtering in the Browser Using Queries to Define Your Scopes Using Subnets to Define Your Scopes Using Subnet Credentials

Step 2a. Choose scopes for your on-premises discoveries

Choosing your Active Directory Scopes

AD Discovery: Include scopes AD Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions AD Discovery: Optionally select one or more domain controllers AD Discovery: Decide what to collect from any domain in the discovery

Choosing your Computer Scopes

Computer Discovery: Include scopes Computer Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Computer Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer in the discovery

Choosing Your Exchange Scopes

Exchange Discovery: Include Scopes Exchange Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Exchange Discovery: Optionally select a domain controller Exchange Discovery: Decide what to collect from any server in the discovery

Choosing Your File Storage Analysis Scopes

File Storage Analysis Discovery: Include scopes File Storage Analysis Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions File Storage Analysis Discovery: Decide what to collect from any server in the discovery File Storage Analysis Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices

Choosing Your Microsoft SQL Scopes

MS SQL Discovery: Include scopes MS SQL Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions (Scope Exclusions and Global Exclusions)

Choosing Your NTFS Scopes

NTFS Discovery: Best Practices NTFS Discovery: Include scopes NTFS Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions NTFS Discovery: Select your global scopes NTFS Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer in the discovery NTFS Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices NTFS Discovery: Configure your file collection

Choosing Your Registry Scopes

Registry Discovery: Include scopes Registry Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Registry Discovery: Select your global scopes Registry Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer

Step 2b: Choose scopes for your cloud discoveries

Choosing Your Azure Active Directory Scopes

Azure AD Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Choosing Your Azure Resource Scopes

Azure Resource Discovery: Include Scopes Azure Resource Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Azure Resource Discovery: Decide what to collect from the subscriptions in the discovery

Choosing Your Exchange Online Scopes

Exchange Online Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Choosing Your Microsoft Teams Scopes

Microsoft Teams Discovery: Include Scopes Microsoft Teams Discovery: Decide what to collect from the subscriptions in the discovery

Choosing Your OneDrive Scopes

OneDrive Discovery: Include Scopes OneDrive Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions OneDrive Discovery: Decide what to collect from the drives in the discovery

Choosing Your SharePoint Online Scopes

SharePoint Online Discovery: Include Scopes SharePoint Online Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions SharePoint Online Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Step 3. Schedule your Discovery

Run your discovery once Run your discovery on a daily interval Run your discovery on specified days of the week Run your discovery on a specified day of the month Run Your Schedule Yearly Enabling and Disabling Discovery Schedules

Step 4: Review the summary

Managing Discoveries

How is a Discovery Processed?

Types of Tasks Manually Running a Discovery

Viewing your Discoveries

Navigating the Manage Discoveries Pane Viewing the History of a Discovery What Does the Discovery Status Indicate? Viewing the Tasks for a Finished Discovery Viewing the Tasks for a Processing Discovery What Does the Task Status Indicate? Why is My View Empty? Viewing Errors and Error Suppressions Suppressing Discovery Errors Viewing Statistics Viewing a Cluster's Queue

Working with Discoveries and Tasks

Duplicating a Discovery Modifying a Discovery Canceling a Task or Discovery Deleting a Discovery

Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter

Problems Opening the Consoles Troubleshooting connectivity issues

Restoring a connection to the Enterprise Reporter Server Restoring a connection to the Enterprise Reporter database

Troubleshooting Connection Timeouts Troubleshooting credential change failures Auditing Enterprise Reporter Activity Resolving Configuration Manager Issues

Node Issues

Node Deployment Issues Dealing with Unassociated Nodes Dealing with Faulted Nodes Problems Deleting a Node Changing the Node Logging Level Changing the Size of the Node Log Files

Scope Enumeration Issues Data Collection Issues

Computer Discovery Errors

Troubleshooting Features in Enterprise Reporter

Exporting Logs from the Configuration Manager Viewing information about your Enterprise Reporter configuration Viewing Errors and Statistics for Tasks

Moving the Enterprise Reporter database Disaster Recovery

Backing up Enterprise Reporter Deploying Enterprise Reporter to another computer after a disaster Checking the Enterprise Reporter configuration after recovery

Appendix: PowerShell cmdlets

What is Microsoft Windows PowerShell? What are cmdlets? Registering Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Adding the snap-ins automatically to new sessions Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Enabling Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Loading the Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Using cmdlets to manage clusters and nodes

Creating a cluster Creating a node Disabling a node Enabling a node Finding a node by name Piping cmdlets Finding a cluster by name Disabling a cluster Enabling a cluster

Using cmdlets to manage discoveries

Getting job information Creating a job Running a job Scheduling a job Deleting a job

Using cmdlets to run reports

Connecting to the server Getting report information Exporting a report definition Importing a report definition to a category Generating a report with data

Appendix: Encryption Key Manager

Starting the Encryption Key Manager Generating a key file Importing a key file Exporting a key file Resetting credentials

Appendix: Log Viewer

Starting the Enterprise Reporter Log Viewer Finding and opening log files Viewing and searching log file entries Filtering log file entries

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Registering Enterprise Reporter cmdlets

If you installed Windows PowerShell on your computer after you installed Quest Enterprise Reporter, you must register the cmdlets before you can start using them in Windows PowerShell.

To register the Enterprise Reporter cmdlets

1	Open Windows PowerShell and type the following at the command prompt:

Add-PSSnapin Quest.Reporter.Configuration

Add-PSSnapin Quest.Reporter.Reporting

2	Type the following at the command prompt to verify that the snap-in was added:

Get-PSSnapin

All registered snap-ins are listed.

To register the Enterprise Reporter cmdlets used for the Database Content Wizard

1	Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator and type the following at the command prompt:

Import-Module "C:\Program Files\Quest\Enterprise Reporter\ConfigurationManager\DatabaseContentWizardCmdlets.Dll" -verbose

2	Type the following at the command prompt to verify that the module was added:

Get-command -Module Database*

All registered database modules are listed.

Adding the snap-ins automatically to new sessions

If you do not want to add the Enterprise Reporter snap-ins manually each time you start a new Windows PowerShell session, you can modify the Windows PowerShell profile file so that the snapins are added automatically.

To add Enterprise Reporter snap-ins automatically when you start a new Windows PowerShell session

•	Add the following lines to the Windows PowerShell profile file (profile.ps1) file:

Add-PSSnapin Quest.Reporter.Configuration

Add-PSSnapin Quest.Reporter.Reporting

The location of the Windows PowerShell profile file is as follows:

WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0

NOTE: If you see the error message "...profile.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled" the next time you start a new Windows PowerShell session, type the following at the Windows PowerShell command prompt: • Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Then, type the following at the Windows PowerShell command prompt to confirm that the execution policy has been changed: • Get-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Enterprise Reporter cmdlets

This table lists the cmdlets included with Quest Enterprise Reporter.

Table 57. Enterprise Reporter cmdlets for use with Windows PowerShell

Cmdlet	Module
Add-ERADDiscoveryAttribute	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Add-ERComputerDiscoveryWMIClass	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Add-ERNode	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Add-ERSystemCredential	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Connect-ERConfigurationServer	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Connect-ERReportingServer	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
Disable-ERCluster	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Disable-ERNode	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Enable-ERCluster	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Enable-ERNode	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Export-ERReportDefinition	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
Get-ERCluster	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERDirectoryConfiguration	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERItSearchConfiguration	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERJobDefinition	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERJobRun	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERLastJobRun	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERLogs	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERNasConfiguration	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERNode	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERReport	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
Get-ERReportSQL	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
Get-ERSystemCredential	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Get-ERUnassociatedNode	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Import-ERReport	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
Initialize-Services	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
Invoke-ERReport	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
New-ERCluster	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
New-ERCredentialMapping	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
New-ERJobDefinition	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Publish-ERReport	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Register-ERDirectoryDiscoveryType	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Register-ERLicense	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Remove-ERCluster	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Remove-ERDirectoryConfiguration	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Remove-ERJobDefinition	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Remove-ERNasConfiguration	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Remove-ERNode	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Send-ERItSearchData	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERADChangeHistory	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERCommonChangeHistory	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERComputerChangeHistory	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERConfigurationManagerOptIn	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERConfigurationServer	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERDirectoryConfiguration	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERDirectoryDiscoveryTypeConsent	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERItSearchConfiguration	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERJobDefinition	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERJobDefinitionSchedule	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERNasConfiguration	Quest.Rerporter.Configuration
Set-ERNodeCluster	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
SetERNTFSChangeHistory	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERRegistryChangeHistory	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERSettingsSSRS	Quest.Reporter.Reporting
Set-ERSQLChangeHistory	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Set-ERSystemCredential	Quest.Reporter.Configuration
Start-ERBackup	DatabaseContentWizardCmdlets
Start-ERClean	DatabaseContentWizardCmdlets
Start-ERMerge	DatabaseContentWizardCmdlets
Start-ERRestore	DatabaseContentWizardCmdlets
Start-ERTransfer	DatabaseContentWizardCmdlets
Submit-ERJobDefinition	DatabaseContentWizardCmdlets
Update-ERNode	Quest.Reporter.Configuration

Enabling Enterprise Reporter cmdlets

Before you can use any of the Enterprise Reporter cmdlets, you might need to configure the older systems (before Windows 2012 R2) on which you will be running the cmdlets.

To enable the Enterprise Reporter comdlets

•	Within the folder C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0, create a new file called powershell.exe.config that contains the following lines:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

  <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">

    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" />

    <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/>

  </startup>

</configuration>

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